Susan Vanderplas

There are new nuke plants planned and some of the older ones that shut during the past 10 years are actually reopening. Duane Arnold in Iowa, for instance. But in the interim (because nuke plants don't spring up instantly) power prices are going to be unreal.

How do you impeach him if the house isn't in session?

Wait, how does it re-open with the house passing a bill?

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Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

NEW: “As of Sept. 30, the department no longer presumes service connection for male breast cancer,” a Veterans Affairs rep confirmed to @propublica.org, meaning newly diagnosed veterans will have to show that their cancer is linked to their military service.

By @ericumansky.bsky.social

this is a halloween treat that i can get behind!

(i just finished reading 1984 yesterday and it TERRIFIED me! so it's a perfect gift for halloween.)

#Halloween #TricksOrTreats #books #BookSky💙📚#TrickOrTeach

The biological truth is that men can get breast cancer.

Consider.

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Email/call and ask what local places need. Some prefer$4wholesale, others don't have the bandwidth to find new suppliers if they've been working with #USDA. Some places divide large bags of dried goods, some don't. But they'll all need help thanks to the #govtshutdown. 2/2

Those in the US... If you have some extra $$$ laying around, see what your local food banks need right now. Snap ends Friday, and USDA funds that allow food banks to get some things at/below cost aren't available either because of the shutdown. This is 100% going to cause a crisis and hunger. 1/2

Conservative individualism in a nutshell: the same people who said we need mass deportation so we can take care of “our own” are cheering on the suspension of SNAP because now they don’t want other people to receive “handouts.” They proudly hate other people. It’s a murderous, anti-society ideology.

Wait, can I sell kids there? Is it like a consignment thing, or? I have a pesky 9 year old who won't clean his room...

They decided to keep that secret for another 2 weeks 😭😬

There's a prewritten #letter that you can easily customize. Please consider filling it out -- and if you want, grab a #Nebraska residential address outside of Lincoln/Omaha (or use yours).

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Hopefully, today the #statistics department finds out what the acad prog cmte will recommend to the chancellor. The next step is the #nebraskaRegents. We have a letter-writing campaign to show this set of cuts is politically unpopular and will hurt the state.

actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...

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Whoops, sorry. Someone with the same name, I guess. 😂

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

@kristenhenry.bsky.social does something very similar.

Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.

Holy shit.

Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.

The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.

What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.

WHEN YOU SPEND $61M ON YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY MILITARY PARADE (photo of a sparsely occupied field) WHEN A DAY IS DEDICATED SOLELY TO TELL YOU WHAT A DICK YOU ARE (SO SO SO many people)

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Left: Let the data speak for themselves. Right: Let the data speak for my implicit assumptions.

#statssky #rstats #datascience

W.H. Auden mention!

#NoKings

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Getting drawn into a movement, into a community, is different than just donating money or going to a march. It's not the same thing. It's not the same kind of engagement. Yes, there are online communities, and online movements, that change lives, and change the world. But.

As UNL proposes steep budget cuts, statistics faculty ask leadership to check their math - Flatwater Free Press A growing chorus of university voices is raising doubts about the data and metrics that UNL used to identify its proposed budget cuts — one of the largest single-year cuts in more than a decade.

flatwaterfreepress.org/as-unl-propo...

It's weird to read news and see your own name in there. Hey #unl, can you opt to keep the #statistics department so that I don't have to be in the news anymore and can go back to doing #rstats and #graphics and #forensics?

-- an incurable introvert